Developing a Multi-Agent System for
Ana Maria Madureira, Joaquim Santos, Nuno Gomes, Ilda Ferreira · 2007
Agent-based computing can be con- sidered as a new general purpose paradigm for software development, which tends to radically influence the way a software system is conceived and developed, and which calls for new agent spe- cific software engineering approaches. This paper presents an architecture for distributed manufac- turing scheduling and follows Agent Oriented Soft- ware Engineering (AOSE) guidelines trough speci- fication defined by Ingenias methodology. This architecture is based on a Multi-Agent System (MAS) composed by a set of autonomous agents that cooperates in order to accomplish a good global solution.